Last updated February 2022.
These are the terms and conditions (“Terms”) of KnewStart Limited, trading as The Source, a company registered in England and Wales under company number 07634264, whose business address is at 71-75 Shelton Street, London, England, WC2H 9JQ (“we” or “us”).
By purchasing a membership to our ‘The Source’ platform (“Services”), available from our website [https://thesourcemember.is (“Website”), you are deemed to accept these Terms, and a legally binding contract is formed between you and us. You will be required to read and accept these Terms when purchasing a membership. If you do not accept these Terms, you will be unable purchase Services from us.
We may update these Terms from time to time, so please check back regularly as any updates will apply to your use of the Website and our Services.
We run an online membership platform for women in cybersecurity (and those who identify as women), with features including masterclasses, live training sessions, mentor matching and other useful resources.
The platform will provide access to private communities for trusted conversations, Q&As and support, as well as access to further events and job opportunities.
Full details of the Services we provide under these Terms are set out on our Website. We do reserve the right to change any elements of our Services at any time if we think this is in your best interests, or if required to do so to improve the quality of the Services.
Note:
We request that at all times your behaviour towards other members of the Services is polite, kind and respectful. We won’t be held responsible for the behaviour or actions of any other members. Should your behaviour be deemed offensive or inappropriate, we reserve the right to remove you from the membership with immediate effect and you won’t be entitled to a refund.
We’re not responsible for the views or opinions shared by others. We ask that all members of the Services respect the rights of others in respect of their behaviour, privacy and confidentiality.
These Terms do not apply to corporate customers purchasing Memberships and accessing the Services in the course of business. If you are a business customer, please contact us at hello@thesource.is and we will provide you with our business customer contract.
When you accept these Terms, you are committing to a freemium membership, with limited access to membership benefits, free of charge, and will then have the option to upgrade to a paid membership with access to all of the membership features. The paid membership is for a minimum term of one year (“fixed term”) for a monthly fee, such fee as advertised on the website from time to time. The term of the membership will run for consecutive months and it isn’t possible to pause your membership during this time. Where you purchase a membership via a Kickstarter Project, such pricing shall apply, and these terms and conditions shall be applicable to such membership.
Payment is made via our Website using a third-party payment processor (currently Stripe, and as such we recommend you read their terms and conditions and privacy policy before you make payment. Our membership prices can be found on our Website.
Our membership prices may change from time to time; however, we will always give you advance notice of any such changes.
At the end of the fixed term, your membership will automatically renew on a monthly basis and the same card details will continue to be charged.
You may terminate your membership at any time after the fixed term, however there will be no refund if you terminate your membership part way through a month. If you wish to terminate, please provide notice to goodbye@thesource.is
If you’re late making payment, we will suspend your membership and access to the Services. We reserve the right to charge interest at a rate of 5% per annum above the Bank of England base rate, from time to time, accruing daily, until paid in full. We also reserve the right to refer any arrears to a third-party debt collection agency and to pass on the associated costs to you.
As we provide you with our intellectual property from the start of the membership, all sales are final and you’re not entitled to a refund if you change your mind after purchase.
You must treat all identification codes, passwords, and other security information that we provide to you regarding your membership as confidential. If we think you have failed to keep confidentiality, we are allowed to disable any security information (including your passwords and codes).
You must not allow anyone else to use Website using your login details.
We are the owner or licensee of all intellectual property rights in the Website, material posted onto it, and all materials we make available to you having paid for a membership, including but not limited to documents, presentations, course materials, workbooks and videos (the “Content”). The Content is protected by copyright.
You agree that you will:
If you breach these Terms, you may lose your right to use our Content, and must destroy or return any copies you have made. We may also seek legal recourse against you.
Material that you upload will be regarded as non-confidential and not owned. This means that we can copy it, distribute it, and show it to other people for any purpose. You agree that if anyone else claims to own the material, or says that it breaches their rights, we can give them your identity.
We won’t be legally responsible to anybody for the accuracy of material that you upload to the Website and we can remove it at any time.
This clause does not apply to any personal data you input into our Website, which will be handled in accordance with our privacy policy. This can be found on our Website.
We do not guarantee the accuracy of material on our Website. As far as legally possible, we exclude legal responsibility for the following:
We also exclude, as far as legally possible, all terms and warranties or promises implied by law or by statutes.
We do not exclude legal responsibility for death or personal injury owing to our negligence, or legal responsibility for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else where exclusion is not allowed by the law.
Our total liability to you under these terms is limited to the fees your have paid for your membership to the Services.
When using the Website, you must not:
If you do anything which is a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990, your right to use the Website will end straightaway. We will report you to the relevant authorities and give them your identity.
Examples of computer misuse include introducing viruses, worms, Trojans and other technologically harmful or damaging material.
You must not try to get access to our Website or server or any connected database or make any ‘attack’ on the Website. We won’t be legally responsible to you for any damage from viruses or other harmful material that you pick up via our Website.
You have permission for temporary use of the Website, but we can withdraw or change our service at any time without telling you and without being legally responsible to you.
If you have any issues using the Website, please contact us at hello@thesource.is.
Links from the Website to other websites are for information only. We don’t control them and we don’t accept responsibility for other websites or any materials found upon them or any loss you suffer from using them.
All personal data that we may use will be collected, processed and held in accordance with the provisions of the EU law retained version of the General Data Protection Regulation (2016/679) and the UK Data Protection Act 2018.
For full details of our collection, processing, storage, and retention of personal data including, but not limited to, the purpose(s) for which personal data is Used, the legal basis or bases for using it, details of your rights and how to exercise them, and personal data sharing (where applicable), please refer to our Privacy Policy, which can be read here: https://www.iubenda.com/privacy-policy/25048519/full-legal.
We change these Terms from time to time and you must check them for changes because they are binding on you.
Unless it expressly states otherwise, these terms do not give rise to any rights under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 to enforce any of these terms.
These Terms and any non-contractual obligations arising hereunder, shall be governed by, and interpreted according to the law of England and Wales and all disputes arising under these terms (including non-contractual disputes or claims) shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English and Welsh courts.
Please email us at hello@thesource.is to contact us about any issues regarding the Website or our Services.
The Source Platform collects some Personal Data from its Users.
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KnewStart Limited, 71-75 Shelton Street, London, United Kingdom WC2H 9JQ
Owner contact email: info@thesourcemember.is
Among the types of Personal Data that The Source Platform collects, by itself or through third parties, there are: Usage Data; Tracker.
Complete details on each type of Personal Data collected are provided in the dedicated sections of this privacy policy or by specific explanation texts displayed prior to the Data collection.
Personal Data may be freely provided by the User, or, in case of Usage Data, collected automatically when using The Source Platform. Unless specified otherwise, all Data requested by The Source Platform is mandatory and failure to provide this Data may make it impossible for The Source Platform to provide its services. In cases where The Source Platform specifically states that some Data is not mandatory, Users are free not to communicate this Data without consequences to the availability or the functioning of the Service. Users who are uncertain about which Personal Data is mandatory are welcome to contact the Owner.
Any use of Cookies – or of other tracking tools – by The Source Platform or by the owners of third-party services used by The Source Platform serves the purpose of providing the Service required by the User, in addition to any other purposes described in the present document and in
the Cookie Policy, if available.
Users are responsible for any third-party Personal Data obtained, published or shared through The Source Platform and confirm that they have the third party’s consent to provide the Data to the Owner.
The Owner takes appropriate security measures to prevent unauthorized access, disclosure, modification, or unauthorized destruction of the Data.
The Data processing is carried out using computers and/or IT enabled tools, following organizational procedures and modes strictly related to the purposes indicated. In addition to the Owner, in some cases, the Data may be accessible to certain types of persons in charge, involved with the operation of The Source Platform (administration, sales, marketing, legal, system administration) or external parties (such as third-party technical service providers, mail carriers, hosting providers, IT companies, communications agencies) appointed, if necessary, as Data Processors by the Owner. The updated list of these parties may be requested from the Owner at any time.
The Owner may process Personal Data relating to Users if one of the following applies:
In any case, the Owner will gladly help to clarify the specific legal basis that applies to the processing, and in particular whether the provision of Personal Data is a statutory or contractual
requirement, or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract.
The Data is processed at the Owner’s operating offices and in any
other places where the parties involved in the processing are located.
Depending on the User’s location, data transfers may involve
transferring the User’s Data to a country other than their own. To find
out more about the place of processing of such transferred Data, Users
can check the section containing details about the processing of
Personal Data.
Users are also entitled to learn about the legal basis of Data
transfers to a country outside the European Union or to any
international organization governed by public international law or set
up by two or more countries, such as the UN, and about the security
measures taken by the Owner to safeguard their Data.
If any such transfer takes place, Users can find out more by checking
the relevant sections of this document or inquire with the Owner using
the information provided in the contact section.
Personal Data shall be processed and stored for as long as required by the purpose they have been collected for.
Therefore:
The Owner may be allowed to retain Personal Data for a longer
period whenever the User has given consent to such processing, as long
as such consent is not withdrawn. Furthermore, the Owner may be obliged
to retain Personal Data for a longer period whenever required to do so
for the performance of a legal obligation or upon order of an authority.
Once the retention period expires, Personal Data shall be deleted.
Therefore, the right of access, the right to erasure, the right to
rectification and the right to data portability cannot be enforced after
expiration of the retention period.
The Data concerning the User is collected to allow the Owner to
provide its Service, comply with its legal obligations, respond to
enforcement requests, protect its rights and interests (or those of its
Users or third parties), detect any malicious or fraudulent activity, as
well as the following:
Displaying content from external platforms.
For specific information about the Personal Data used for each
purpose, the User may refer to the section “Detailed information on the
processing of Personal Data”.
Personal Data is collected for the following purposes and using the following services:
Users may exercise certain rights regarding their Data processed by the Owner.
In particular, Users have the right to do the following:
Where Personal Data is processed for a public interest, in the
exercise of an official authority vested in the Owner or for the
purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the Owner, Users may
object to such processing by providing a ground related to their
particular situation to justify the objection.
Users must know that, however, should their Personal Data be
processed for direct marketing purposes, they can object to that
processing at any time without providing any justification. To learn,
whether the Owner is processing Personal Data for direct marketing
purposes, Users may refer to the relevant sections of this document.
Any requests to exercise User rights can be directed to the Owner
through the contact details provided in this document. These requests
can be exercised free of charge and will be addressed by the Owner as
early as possible and always within one month.
The User’s Personal Data may be used for legal purposes by the
Owner in Court or in the stages leading to possible legal action arising
from improper use of The Source Platform or the related Services.
The User declares to be aware that the Owner may be required to reveal personal data upon request of public authorities.
In addition to the information contained in this privacy policy,
The Source Platform may provide the User with additional and contextual
information concerning particular Services or the collection and
processing of Personal Data upon request.
For operation and maintenance purposes, The Source Platform and any
third-party services may collect files that record interaction with The
Source Platform (System logs) use other Personal Data (such as the IP
Address) for this purpose.
More details concerning the collection or processing of Personal
Data may be requested from the Owner at any time. Please see the contact
information at the beginning of this document.
The Source Platform does not support “Do Not Track” requests.
To
determine whether any of the third-party services it uses honor the “Do
Not Track” requests, please read their privacy policies.
The Owner reserves the right to make changes to this privacy policy
at any time by notifying its Users on this page and possibly within The
Source Platform and/or – as far as technically and legally feasible –
sending a notice to Users via any contact information available to the
Owner. It is strongly recommended to check this page often, referring to
the date of the last modification listed at the bottom.
Should the changes affect processing activities performed on the basis
of the User’s consent, the Owner shall collect new consent from the
User, where required.
Definitions
Any information that directly, indirectly, or in connection with other information — including a personal identification number — allows for the identification or identifiability of a natural person.
Information collected automatically through The Source Platform (or third-party services employed in The Source Platform), which can include: the IP addresses or domain names of the computers utilized by the Users who use The Source Platform, the URI addresses (Uniform Resource Identifier), the time of the request, the method utilized to submit the request to the server, the size of the file received in response, the numerical code indicating the status of the server’s answer (successful outcome, error, etc.), the country of origin, the features of the browser and the operating system utilized by the User, the various time details per visit (e.g., the time spent on each page within the Application) and the details about the path followed within the Application with special reference to the sequence of pages visited, and other parameters about the device operating system and/or the User’s IT environment.
The individual using The Source Platform who, unless otherwise specified, coincides with the Data Subject.
The natural person to whom the Personal Data refers.
The natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which processes Personal Data on behalf of the Controller, as described in this privacy policy.
The natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of Personal Data, including the security measures concerning the operation and use of The Source Platform. The Data Controller, unless otherwise specified, is the Owner of The Source Platform.
The means by which the Personal Data of the User is collected and processed.
The service provided by The Source Platform as described in the relative terms (if available) and on this site/application.
Unless otherwise specified, all references made within this document to the European Union include all current member states to the European Union and the European Economic Area.
Cookies are Trackers consisting of small sets of data stored in the User’s browser.
Tracker indicates any technology – e.g Cookies, unique identifiers, web beacons, embedded scripts, e-tags and fingerprinting – that enables the tracking of Users, for example by accessing or storing information on the User’s device.
This privacy statement has been prepared based on provisions of multiple legislations, including Art. 13/14 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation).
This privacy policy relates solely to The Source Platform, if not stated otherwise within this document.